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Chapter 0: The Ground
A Personal Beginning
In 2007, violist Mary Oliver and contrabassist Rozemarie Heggen invited me to write a piece for their duo incorporating improvisation. Despite my diverse experience writing chamber music, free improvising, interpreting, and working in a host of interdisciplinary formats, the request seemed odd.“Why … Read Chapter
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A Treatise Remix Handbook
What is the relevant way of speaking about Treatise? What are the terms? Can one really say anything explicit about it? (Cardew 1971, 102)1
Introduction
In “The Ground”, I asked myself two questions in response to an invitation to compose for an improvising … Read Chapter
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Invitation to Collaborate — Répondez s’il vous plaît!
Notation is an invitation to collaborate.1
In the planning of communities a score visible to all the people allows each one of us to respond, to find our own input, to influence before decisions are made. Scoring makes the process visible.2
Collectivity … Read Chapter
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Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
A Score can become a notch cut or line, an account kept, number of points made, set of twenty, a topic, piece of good fortune, worst in repartee, and much more. And not to forget a Partitura from the Latin Pars indicating both partial, direction … Read Chapter